Boeing scorns Airbus, Bombardier plan for Alabama facility

Boeing isn’t buying Bombardier’s assurances that it will build an assembly line in Alabama under a partnership with Airbus on Bombardier’s marquee jetliner. “Bombardier and Airbus are extremely unlikely ever to actually establish a C Series assembly line in Alabama,” Boeing said in a letter to US Commerce secretary Wilbur Ross. Plans for the new facility, which would probably be located next to an existing Airbus plant in Mobile, “would make no economic sense,” Boeing said. The letter, dated Nov 13, is part of Boeing’s case before US authorities, which are investigating whether duties should be imposed on US sales of the C Series. Boeing accused Bombardier of selling the jet to Delta Air Lines at “absurdly low prices.” The Commerce Department so far has sided with Boeing. <br/>